The Qtek 8500 comes in two colours; either black all over, or a third black and two thirds bright, bright pink...

The phone is being marketed in part as a music player, and there are controls on the front that allow you to manage tunes being played back through the Windows Media Player without opening the flip. The 128 x 128 pixel, 1.2-inch front screen provides some information about what is being played. The front screen has some other functions, such as showing photos of incoming callers if you have saved these in the handset.

But if you want to carry a lot of tunes around you will need to add to the internal memory with microSD cards. There is a slot under the SIM card for these. You may also need to consider the fact that when we ran a continuous music playback test - with Bluetooth turned off - we got just four hours out of the battery.